West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-06-23
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE's SUN.
DAY SERMON.
The Heavens Opened"

1cth q iOUd roice and SioDDcd fbeir
ears, and ran upon Him tCih one accord.
ana cast htpt out Of the city, and stoned
HIM; and The tciinesscs laid do,pn Defy
clothes at q young mans feet, ,chose name
tcdS saul. and they stoned stephen, colfag
upon God ant sGyiHg, Lord Jesus, receive
my YtrH ind lee kHecicd dorm and cried
tcth toNd rOtcc, Lori, lay not his sin fO
hctr charge. Ind ,CIScn he hat Sdid this,
ne feH asleep. Acts vii. $500.
stephen had been preaching n rousing ser
nl"li' anu the people could not stand H.. They
resolved 70 do as men sometimes would like To
GO IN ihis day, If they dared, with some plain
preacher OF Righteousness kill him. Tho
onY way 20 silence this man was To
Snock The breath out Of him. SO they rushed
PIeputn out OF the gates of the city, and with
SuiS5, and whoop, and below they brought
pm 10 the cifI a. was the custom when they
wanted 10 take away life by stOning Having
drought him To the edge of the cliff they
pushed MIN OF After hc had fallen they
came and looked down, aud seeing that he
was not yet dead, they BEGAN TO drop stones
upon him, stone after stone stone after stone
Alnid IN rain OF missiles stephen chambers
mp on his knees and folds his hands Nyhile
The blood drips from his temples 10 his cheeks
from his cheeks 10 his garments, from his gar
mentS 20 tho ground; and then, looking up,
he makes two prayers-one for himself and
ono for his murderers Lord Jesus receive
my splrit;' that was for himself. lord, lay
not TINS sin TO their charge" that was for his
Sss'ulants. Then, from pain and loss of blood,
ne sWooned away and fell asleep.
G.. want to show You to-day five pictures
stephen gazing into heaven. Stephen look
ing at Christ Stephen stoned Stephen in
ms dying prayer Stephen asleep.
- FlrSt, look at stephen gazing into heaven.
before you take n leap you want 10 know
WheTe You are going 70 land Before you
climb ladder you want to know 10 what
point the ladder reaches. And it was right
that stephen within n few moments OF
heaven, should be gazing into it, We would
oil f., 10, F.r,,, -, a.
There is enough in heaven 10 keep us gazing
man of large wealth may have statuary i'm
the hall, and paintings in the sitting-room
anu works oil art in all parts of the house. but
ne mas the chief pictures in the art gallery,
ana there, hour alter hour, you walk with
catalogue and glass and ever increasing ad-
mlraton. Wei, heaven is the gallery where
Goi mas gathered the chief treasures of His
realm The whole universe is His palace In this
lower room where we stop there are many
adornmcnts; teSsellated floor of AMETHYST
and blossom, and on the winding cloud-staiT7s
hreStrctched out canvas on which Commingle
azure, and purple, and s ffrou, and gold
buJ heaven Is the gallery in which the chief
glorles are gathered There are the brightest
robes. There are the richest crowns There
are the highest eXhIlarations. John says OF
IL Inc kings of the earth shall
bring their honor and glory into IL ~
anu l see the procession forming and in
The line come all empires, and the stars sprinc,
up into an arch for the hosts 20 march under
Ihey keep step 10 the sound of earthquake and
the pltch OF avalanche from the mountains
and the flag they bear is the flame of n con-
sunlng world, and all heaven turns out with
harps and trumpets and myriad voiced &c
examination OF angelic dominion TO welcome
them IN, and so the kings of the earth bring
their honor and glory into it. Do YOU won,
ueI that good people often stand like Stephen
looking INTO heaven! We have a great
many friends there. There is not a
man in this house to-day So
isolated in life lint Il
heaven with whom he once shook hands. As
a man gets older, the number of his celestial
acquaintance very rapidly multplies. We
nave not had one glimpse of them since the
night we kissed them goodbye and they went
away; but still we stand gazing at heaven.
AS wren some of our friends 90 across the
sea, we stand on the dock, or on the steam
Iug; ana watch them, and after awhile the
hulk OF the vessel disappears, and then there
Is only patch OF sail on the sky, and soon
that Is gone, and they are all out of SIGHT
ana yet we stand looking in the same
mreitlon 50 when our friends go
away from us into the future world We
Keep looking down through the Narrows, and
gazing and gazing though we expected
thaJ they would come out and stand ON some
evening cloud. and give US one glimpse OF
OueII phssiul ana TRANSPORTED faces While
yOd lOhg 10 JOIN their cOmpanOnship and tha
years and the days go with u.h teiium that
phey break your heart. and the yiper Of main
and sorrow and bereavement keetrs pnaSying
az your yitals, you still stand like Ste
phen, gazing into heaven YOu wonder
III they have changed since Won saw Thorn loet
You wonder If they would recognize your
race now, so changed has il been with tronbIe
GU wonder n, amid the myriad delights
tney have, they care rs much for Won a.. 49,.
used 10 when they gave YOU n bolpino band
ana put their shoulder under your burdens
You wonder If they look any older. and some
time IN the evening tide, when the house is
all quiet, you wonder II YOU should call tb.,,,
fV their first ~ 4
ana perhaps sometimes you do make the on,
pertinent, and when no che but God ard vo,1r-
ser are there you distinctly call their name
ana listen, and wait, and sit gazing into
Pass on now, and sec stephen looking mon
Chllst My text says he saw the Son III Mon
aJ the right hand Of God Just how Cbrist
lo'aed IN this world, just how he locks in
~ ~ IN IN we e-'nnoi say a writer in the time
on Onri,t sHys describing the Saviour's per
~'nal appearance, that He had blue ewes and
HShl cpuplexion and very graceful str1ct-
m.e, but / suppose 10 was all guess work,
A' painters ri different ages have tried to
imagine the features Of Christ and put them
upon canvas. but wc will have b. wait until
"ilI our own eyes we see him and with our
own ears we can hc1r Him And set there
i' way of seeing and hearing Him now.
nave Co tell Won that unless Won
See and hear Christ on e4rtb you
VIII never SEE and hear Him in heaven,
"gk. There he is. Behold the Lamb Of
Eol Can SOU not sec Him, Then pray to
Jo1 ~ take tho scales of your ewes Look
th't way Try 90 look That way His voice
como. Gown to Won this day-comes down 20
tne bilnda-t. 20 the dnafcst koul Swing.
LOOK unto No all sc ends N the earth and
be We saved. for ann God and there is none
ea~ irD" .am1ti0u Of universal emaucipa-
IIn inr aII Saves PROCLAMATION of universal
ll1n. tY for an rebels Ahasuerus gathered
Tie babY.puI-h mobiles TO his table. Gcorge i
e,t.It'in.3 ihe lords of England at ban